Posts Tagged ‘Windows Vista’

Windows 7 Update

I feel a little silly. Yesterday I fixed the problems I was having with Windows 7. I had issues with the UI going funny and blacking out parts of the screen. Yesterday I looked into this issue. While in device manager I noticed the display I was running was a beta version of the video [...]

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Windows 7 Install Update

I’m really enjoying the Windows 7 build that I’m running. It really does seem to run smoother and quicker than Windows Vista. Even after I installed all the programs I had running on my Vista build it still feels quicker. I have had no problems with drivers or programs installing.
It has taken a bit [...]

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Windows 7 Install

I installed Windows 7 on my work laptop. I have been hearing a lot of good stuff about Windows 7 and I had to try it out. I haven’t played with Windows 7 a lot yet, but so far I really like it. The UI feels quicker than on Vista. I noticed several small [...]

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Vista media play back crippled

I stummbled on this article from Peter Gutmann explaining the copy protection built into Windows Vista. The article states that Vista will down grade video and audio reproduction on protected media if Vista can not protect the media.
Vista also has built in tilt bits to help protect from hacked hardware. Vista checks its hardware regularly against these [...]

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